Design Engineer (Contract)

Pay £45 per hour (outside of IR35)

Essex

Our client develops medical devices, manufactures, and distributes instruments, consumables, and services for use in laboratories around the world. The product portfolio of the business units Liquid Handling, Consumables, Separation & Instrumentation and Bioprocess includes, for example, pipettes, pipette tips, centrifuges, mixers, ultra-freezers and bioreactors for cell and gene research. They are now looking to recruit a site based Design Engineer in Essex for a contract role of at least 6 months.

The Design Engineer role overview:

• Design & development of ultra-low temperature refrigeration systems to meet customer and product requirements following agile methodology of product development
• Use of specific numeric calculation methods to assure design performance while minimizing investment on prototype and experiments building, calibrate models targeting representativeness
• Create and review specifications of refrigeration systems and components for use either to prototypes or off tooling units. Assure refrigeration specifications are feasible to source by connecting to suppliers and manufacturing operations
• Provide specific documentation related to product design to meet regulatory compliance: ISO 9001, 13485 and organization requirements
• Assist on quality complains from the field by providing technical support to identify root cause, short- and long-term alternatives and determine potential product risks

Design Engineer Skills / Qualifications:

• Design Engineer would have a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Have a solid technical background on thermodynamics and heat transfer in the development of refrigeration products or devices
• Proven track of record on product/ technologies development as a design engineer using thermodynamics and heat transfer
• Design Engineer will have hxperience working in formalized phase-gate product development process, using Design tools such as DFM, FMEA and ISO 9001 design controls
• Experience on SolidWorks (CAD)

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Please note: Any reference to salary or pay rates in this advertisement are indicative only and should only be used as a guide.